Bangladeshis among 26 rescued from truck in Austria
AFP
Austrian police said yesterday they intercepted another truck containing 26 migrants and that three young children had to be hospitalised, days after 71 people died in an abandoned vehicle, AFP adds from Vienna.
The vehicle, pulled over by police after a chase on Friday, contained 26 illegal foreigners from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Syria who said they wanted to go to Germany, police said in a statement yesterday.The incident happened near Braunau am Inn in western Austria close to the border with Germany. The Romanian driver, who had refused to pull over for a routine check, was arrested.
The three small children had to be hospitalised... because of the extremely bad state of their health. Doctors said they were treated for severe dehydration, a spokesman from police in Upper Austria state told AFP.
Austria borders Hungary, which has seen more than 140,000 migrants enter from Serbia this year.
On Thursday an abandoned truck containing the bodies of 71 dead migrants including four children was found on a motorway in eastern Austria near the Hungarian border, provoking international revulsion.
